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When There Were Trees

Poem by Nancy Willard; drypoints and etching by Michele Burgess; paper color and design by Merilyn Britt. 11” x 5”. Edition of 25. 1999.

The third book in the “Women in the Western Landscape” series that includes Sleeping Inside the Glacier and Glyphs. This book was designed to the scale of the human body at 44” x 31”. Each stanza of the poem moves down on each page, as a meteor falls.

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